Cristina Rivera Garza

Cristina Rivera Garza is an award-winning author, translator, and critic. Her books, originally written in Spanish, have been translated into multiple languages. She is the recipient of the Roger Caillois Award for Latin American Literature (2013), the Anna Seghers-Preis (2005), and the only two-time winner of the International Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize (2001; 2009). She received her PhD in History in 1995 and an honoris causa PhD in Humane Letters in 2012, both from the University of Houston, where she is currently Distinguished Professor in Hispanic Studies.